Category: Language: English
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102 Dalmatians. Dir. Kevin Lima. Walt Disney Pictures. 2000.
Feathers Amongst the Furs: The Revival of Power Dynamic in 102 Dalmatians The visuals of the original 1961 animation and the 1996 live-action adaption have become iconic to those familiar with the story of 101 Dalmatians. The sea of black spots dispersed across endless white furs. The gangly, striking screen presence of the archetypal villain,…
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Nymphomaniac : Volume I. Dir. Lars von Trier. Artificial Eye. 2014.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) features as half of the final film in Lars von Trier’s unofficially titled ‘Depression Trilogy’. It follows the story of a woman named Joe who recounts her past as a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac to a man called Seligman, who takes her in after finding her half dead in an alley.
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Inside Llewyn Davis. Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. CBS Films. 2013.
Inside Llewyn Davis, is a Coen Brothers mock biopic depicting a struggling singer in 1960s New York. The film leads the central character Llewyn to question whether or not he should continue to perform music following the suicide of his singing partner, Mike. The theme of alienation reoccurs throughout the film and is reinforced by…
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Dir. Gore Verbinski . Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. 2003.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a film based on the Disney theme park attraction, which tells the story of 18th century pirates trying to rid themselves of an Aztec curse. Early in the film a group of pirates are imprisoned at Port Royal, alongside one of the film’s central characters, Captain…
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Planet of the Apes. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. Twentieth Century Fox. 1968.
Representation of Race through Franklin J. Schaffner’s ‘Space’ By 1968 North America had experienced over a decade of significant political uproar about the oppression that African-Americans suffered from, with this being known formally as the Civil Rights Movement. This was also the year that Franklin J. Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes was released. The film extrapolates issues…
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IRIS. Dir. Albert Maysles. Magnolia Pictures. 2014.
Albert Maysles’ 2015 documentary film IRIS provides a portrait of the nonagenarian fashion icon, Iris Apfel. Filming inside Iris’s apartment, Maysles presents us with many images of animal representations. The animals are artificial reproductions of the ‘real’ thing. They are aesthteic objects concerned only with style; carriers of pleasure rather than carriers of meaning. Taking Whitney Rugg’s…
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Walking With Dinosaurs: Time of the Titans. Dir. Tim Haines and Jasper James. BBC Worldwide. 1999.
Walking With Dinosaurs: Time of the Titans is a 1999 BBC animated documentary that brought together paleontologists and animators alike with the aim of bringing the age of dinosaurs to life, giving the audience a feeling of what it was like when dinosaurs roamed the earth. This particular episode is part two of a six episode…
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Lolita. Dir. Adrian Lyne. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 1997.
‘Lolita’ (dir. By Adrian Lyne, 1997) is based Vladimir Nabokov’s novel of the same name. It follows the story of Humbert Humbert and his twelve year old step daughter Dolores or as he nicknames her, Lolita. The relationship between these characters is far from the idealistic father-daughter relationship, as Humbert reveals his paedophilic motive. The…
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Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938.
Howard Hawks created a mass of parallels between the female and the leopard Baby in Bringing Up Baby. He displays a classical Hollywood screwball gender notion – women are wild while men are sensible. It is obvious that the female protagonist Susan has a closer relationship with the wild animals than everyone else in the film.…